UMIN-CTR Clinical Trial

Unique ID issued by UMIN UMIN000053757
Receipt number R000061345
Scientific Title An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Attention-Disturbing Stimuli on Short-Term Memory Function
Date of disclosure of the study information 2025/03/01
Last modified on 2024/03/01 23:54:54

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Basic information

Public title

An exploratory study of the effects of attention-disturbing stimuli on short-term memory function in normal-hearing subjects and patients with listening difficulties.

Acronym

An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Attention-Disturbing Stimuli on Short-Term Memory Function

Scientific Title

An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Attention-Disturbing Stimuli on Short-Term Memory Function

Scientific Title:Acronym

An exploratory study of the effects of attention-disturbing stimuli on short-term memory function in normal-hearing subjects and patients with listening difficulties.

Region

Japan


Condition

Condition

Listening difficulties

Classification by specialty

Oto-rhino-laryngology Adult

Classification by malignancy

Others

Genomic information

NO


Objectives

Narrative objectives1

The effects of various attentional interference stimuli on Digit Span, a test of short-term memory, performance of visual Span, and speech intelligibility will be explored in normal hearing subjects and patients with listening difficulties to provide basic data for establishing a clinical test method to evaluate memory function pathology in patients with listening difficulties.

Basic objectives2

Others

Basic objectives -Others

Assessment of memory function pathology in patients with listening difficulties

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Developmental phase



Assessment

Primary outcomes

Maximum number of digits in Digit span

Key secondary outcomes



Base

Study type

Observational


Study design

Basic design


Randomization


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Dynamic allocation


Institution consideration


Blocking


Concealment



Intervention

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Eligibility

Age-lower limit

18 years-old <=

Age-upper limit

50 years-old >

Gender

Male and Female

Key inclusion criteria

(1) Hearing-impaired subjects (normal volunteers)
1) Normal hearing subjects with no history of ear, nerve or neurological diseases and no abnormalities in auditory function
(2) Age: 18 years old or older, less than 50 years old (at the time of registration)
(3) Gender: Any gender

(2) Listening difficulties patients (patient volunteers)
(1) Patients diagnosed with the syndrome or suspected of having the syndrome by an audiologic evaluation at an ENT clinic.
(2) Age: 18 years old or older, under 50 years old (at the time of registration) (3) Gender: Any gender
Gender: Any gender

Key exclusion criteria

(1) Healthy hearing subjects (normal volunteers)
1) Subjects with a history of ear disease
2) Subjects with a history of psychiatric disease
(3) Subjects with a history of peripheral or central nervous system disease
(4) Pregnant or possibly pregnant
(5) Other patients who are judged to be unsuitable as subjects by the principal investigator or subinvestigators.

(2) Patients with Lstening difficulties (patient volunteers)
(1) Patients with a history of peripheral or central nervous system disease
(2) Pregnant or possibly pregnant
(iii) Other patients who are judged to be inappropriate as subjects by the principal investigator or subinvestigators.
(Because the patient background for #Listening difficulties is also known to include a history of childhood ear disease, neurodevelopmental disorders, depression, and other psychiatric disorders, the conditions of a history of ear disease or psychiatric disorders that are excluded in healthy hearing subjects were not added to the exclusion criteria)

Target sample size

80


Research contact person

Name of lead principal investigator

1st name Tetsuaki
Middle name
Last name Kawase

Organization

Tohoku University

Division name

graduate school of medicine

Zip code

980-8574

Address

1-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai City

TEL

022-717-7304

Email

kawase@orl.med.tohoku.ac.jp


Public contact

Name of contact person

1st name Tetsuaki
Middle name
Last name Kawase

Organization

Tohoku University

Division name

graduate school of medicine

Zip code

980-8574

Address

1-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai City

TEL

022-717-7304

Homepage URL


Email

kawase@orl.med.tohoku.ac.jp


Sponsor or person

Institute

Tohoku University

Institute

Department

Personal name



Funding Source

Organization

MEXT

Organization

Division

Category of Funding Organization

Japanese Governmental office

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Other related organizations

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IRB Contact (For public release)

Organization

Ethics Committee Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine

Address

2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan

Tel

022-717-8007

Email

med-kenkyo@grp.tohoku.ac.jp


Secondary IDs

Secondary IDs

NO

Study ID_1


Org. issuing International ID_1


Study ID_2


Org. issuing International ID_2


IND to MHLW



Institutions

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Other administrative information

Date of disclosure of the study information

2025 Year 03 Month 01 Day


Related information

URL releasing protocol


Publication of results

Unpublished


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Progress

Recruitment status

Open public recruiting

Date of protocol fixation

2024 Year 02 Month 01 Day

Date of IRB

2024 Year 02 Month 14 Day

Anticipated trial start date

2024 Year 03 Month 01 Day

Last follow-up date

2028 Year 03 Month 31 Day

Date of closure to data entry


Date trial data considered complete


Date analysis concluded



Other

Other related information

Recruitment of test subjects begins.


Management information

Registered date

2024 Year 03 Month 01 Day

Last modified on

2024 Year 03 Month 01 Day



Link to view the page

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https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000061345